Friday, September 03, 2010

Color and Quirk

Fantasyland "C" Ticket - Original acrylic painting by Jody Daily

This painting was snatched up by a collector so fast we didn't even have a chance to tell it goodbye. It was the first in a series of Disneyland illustrations featuring Jody's now-famous "kid in a striped shirt."

Considering the trove that surrounds and inspires me every day in our Anaheim studio, I don't blog about Jody's work nearly enough. Failed attempts aside to convince him to start his own blog, there will be more from the colorful and quirky world of Jody Daily coming to this space throughout the week. Enjoy!

When I first saw these back in the Gallery I remember not being able to figure out the medium. The colors were so vibrant I figured they must be done in guoache. But this one in particular has a fluid quality- it almost looks like someone took the final image, heated it and let it drip a little bit- I thought perhaps it had been digitally done to get that effect. But it doesn't ruin the solidity at all. I was just amazed that someone could draw this way.

Thanks for the great comments Everybody! I've passed them onto Jody who blushed, dug his toe into the dirt and said "gawrsh."

Emily and Eric, Sorry to say that this image has never been released as a print or a giclee. The memory that you have of it is from seeing the original on the wall before it sold. "Live Mermaids" is, so far, the only "Jody" painting that DL has chosen to reproduce as an inexpensive print. Hopefully that will change sooner than later. Write your congressman! (...or Deanne Hill in Disneyland merchandising!)

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Art director, illustrator, writer, show designer, sculptor, puppeteer, and maker of things. Inconveniently enamored with outdated technology, and pretty much every kind of cultural aspect of the American early 1960s. Will pay big bucks to the guy who produces a plausible time machine.